Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.
I care about the country/world and I want to pay close attention, but I can’t let the fate of that man control my happiness. I just want to make my family & friends as happy as I can, be helpful when I’m needed, and then focus on my own sense of well being. All that is hard enough without him.
I thought we learned our lesson when Ronald Reagan became president and everybody thought it was a bad idea that somebody that was famous became president.
Remember when? 🤔 CNN and MSNBC, fake "blue" networks, cut away quickly from Bernie Sanders rallies, with huge crowds, to show Trump's EMPTY podium. Text on screen said "Waiting for Trump" as if he were already POTUS, and his dead-air was more important than #MedicareForAll#TaxTheRich or #NoMoreWar
I actually don't think about him that much. It's just a low key background hatred.
Well. That's not entirely true. I often wish he would die. I guess that counts as thinking.
Goddamned reality TV personality and he was a complete asshole before that. This is a guy that is so bereft of character the NFL wouldn’t let him own a team. We should have to never think about this ignorant fuck ever, yet, here we are.
The problem is there are so many bad things that Trump funnels into problems in the real world.
We all want a better world... and it's so shocking to see things like SCOTUS resisting better worlds for selfish profits.
Resistors are leading the way...
It's what the Founders warned us could happen, when they made all the checks and balances. "Tyrants will be super shitty and boring crooks" is basically the theme of the Federalist Papers.
The debate sent me spiraling because I hadn't had to hear him lie to the camera and not get called out for about 4 years. It brought 2017 to 2021 rushing back and it was not good. (I know he never stopped, but at least it wasn't on every channel 24/7)
I still think about how, down the stretch of the 2022 season, the Twins kept sitting Luis Arraez against lefties so he'd beat out Aaron Judge for the batting title and keep Judge from winning the Triple Crown. NOBODY cares about that shit anymore. And it still beats thinking of Trump.
Also bad for our health. Lots of studies have measured negative health effects from living in a high crime neighborhood, and he turned the whole country into ... a high crime neighborhood.
All because brohs of all ages love their alpha dog who give them permission to be ruthless, and the rest of us who don’t get a say are supposed to eat up the entertainment value. It super sucks.
In ten years or whatever, people are going to be walking around with PhDs they got for a dissertation about President Trump. Deeply embarrassing country.
We all have PTSD since he slithered into the political domain. Thoughts that once he lost the 2020 election we could breathe again. Paradoxically, we've been subjected to torture.
I always thought if we had a complete maniac running the country it would at least be a cool Caligula type of guy naming horses to the Supreme Court but it turns out it’s just a weird guy airing his grievances about a Vanity Fair article no one has ever read
It’s a narcissists DREAM to have an entire nation obsess about him daily.
Imagine how unhinged he’s going to be when he wins in a landslide in November.
All my favorite accounts religiously screenshot and post his Truth Social rants (the more minimal or non-existent the accompanying commentary the better!) on the regular so that I can shake my head and say Oh That Donald, Breaking Norms Again
And we're forced to see positive news stories about a twice impeached, civilly liable sexual predator, convicted felon because he gets more clicks than the boring guy who gets shit done. I hate America now, way more than I did 10 years ago.
He’s such a nothing, it’s really astonishing the hold he has captured. It really breaks my mind how it happened.
No charisma, no looks, can barely string a sentence together in a coherent manner, rich only by accident of birth (and leverage) - I really don’t get how it happened
It's so unhealthy to fear for freedom and civilization every day like this - unhealthy for every person who's paying attention in the whole world.
We need a wow finish that allows us to be free of this.
It's fucked everything up about my life. My mental state is worse, I've gained weight and my brain is literally oozing out vital information because I have to think about his dangerous fuckery all the time.
Working in a newsroom during the Trump admin gave me a debilitating case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). DJT getting kicked off twitter was a high point.
I'm not sure I'm mentally strong enough to do another Trump term, and I lived through COVID in NYC, 9/11, and the '92 LA riots.